Michael Athans

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Citizenship American Notable students Jeff S. Shamma Fields Control theory		Name Michael Athans

Born May 3, 1937 (age 87) Drama, Greece ( 1937-05-03 ) Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alma mater University of California, Berkeley Notable awards Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (1995)Donald P. Eckman Award Education University of California, Berkeley Books Optimal control, Optimal Control: An Introduction to the Theory and Its Applications
Residence United States of America

Michael Athans (born Michael Athanassiades, May 3, 1937) is a Greek-American control theorist and a retired Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (1973) and a Fellow of the AAAS (1977). He is the recipient of numerous awards for his contributions in the field of control theory.

Michael Athans Michael Athans Emory University School of Law Atlanta GA

Education

Athans received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1958, 1959, and 1961, respectively.

Awards

American Automatic Control Council Donald P. Eckman Award "for outstanding contributions to the field of automatic control" in 1964.

American Society for Engineering Education Frederick Emmons Terman Award as "the outstanding young electrical engineering educator" in 1969.

American Control Council's Education Award for "outstanding contributions and distinguished leadership in automatic control education" in 1980.

IEEE Control Systems Society's 1993 Hendrik Wade Bode Prize.

American Automatic Control Council's Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award in 1995.

Honoris causa doctorate from Universidade Técnica de Lisboa in 2011.

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